A popular history of British Crustacea; comprising a familiar account of their classification and habits

by: White, Adam, 1817-1879; Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884, ill; Brooks, Vincent, 1815?-1885, printer of plates; Hay, William Perry, 1872-1947, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1857

Topics: Crustacea, Crustacea

Publisher: London : L. Reeve

Collection: biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Plates signed: Sowerby del. et lith.; Vincent Brooks imp

"John Edward Taylor printer ... Lincoln's Inn Fields"--Verso of t.p

Page 95 is misnumbered as 25

Publisher's advertisements on final 2 p

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

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SCNHRB has 2 copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088009177601) has autograph of W.P. Hay on front free endpaper, with note, "Bought in Cambridge, Mass., July 18th, 1901."

SCNHRB c. 1 has stamps: W.P. Hay Collection; Smithsonian Libraries, Jul. 22, 1988

SCNHRB c. 1 is bound in modern red buckram with gilt-lettered spine; original front and back coverings of publisher's red embossed cloth binding are mounted on the boards, with a gilt-tooled crab design on front. Binder's label for Townsend Bookbinding, New Market, Va. on back paste-down endpaper

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088009177692) has stamps: Crustacea Library, Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Apr. 23, 1932; accession no. 290753

SCNHRB c. 2 has a few penciled markings

SCNHRB c. 2 has a modern green buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine; label for "HNM" bindery on back paste-down endpaper

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found. Some plates cropped at gutter.

Addeddate: 2016-10-06 14:05:46

Associated-names: Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884, ill; Brooks, Vincent, 1815?-1885, printer of plates; Hay, William Perry, 1872-1947, former owner